OK, but there have been a few periodic "hiccups" over the last couple of weeks at least, each of which will negatively impact our business in a reasonably significant way while it is in effect. It would be good to know if the underlying issue has been found and when it might be fixed.

Apologies for the search service errors.We had performance issues 10:30-10:51 and 11:20-12:01 caused by a small group of IP addresses hammering search.Steps have been taken to resolve that and search is now back to normal.Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yes there was an issue from 10:21 to 11:29.This is the first this week.All resolved now. Sorry for the inconvenience.We are currently testing a number of changes/fixes to prevent these issues happening in the future.